Improvement in saw-handles



UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.,

WILLIAM MILLSPAUGH, OF MIDDLETOW, NEW YORK.

|MPRovEMENT`|N sA'w-HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 156,369, dated October27, 1874; application tiled ASeptember 12, 1874.

drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, specificationi The nature of my invention consists in the which form a part of thismethod of fastening compass and other sawsA in their handles, by meansof which the saw can be easily attached and detached without the aid ofany tool, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side View of a saw embodyingmy invention, and Fig. 2 is a side view of the 'heel of the saw-blade. l

`A represents the sawlhandle, and B the saw-blade, constructed in' anyof the -known Iand usual ways. That part of the handle A in which theblade is to be fastened is slotted in the ordinary manner for theinsertion of the heel of the blade. In the heel of the blade B are madetwLo slots, b b, one from the bottom, at or near the end, and the otherfrom the top, farther away from the end. One side of each slot iscurved, as shown in Fig. 2. Through the slotted part of the handle arepassed two screws or pins, a a, the same distance apart as the innerends of the slots b b. The saw-blade can now be easily inserted in thehandle, 4in the manner as represented by the dotted lines in Fig. l,and,.when inserted, it is held by the pins or screws aa, inthe bottomsof the slots b b. It can also be easily removed and another bladeinserted in the same handle when desired.

This is especially of advantage in the classesof saws known as compass,pruning, key-hole, and fret saws, but may, of course, be applied to anyhand-saw, if so desired.

I am aware of patent No. 50,667, and do not claim anything showntherein; but

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The saw-blade B, provided with the slots b b, in combination With theslotted handle A, provided with pins or screws a a, constructedsubstantially as and for the purposes herein set forth. p t

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two Witnesses.

WM. MILLSPAUGH.

Witnesses:

E. M. MADDEN, Jr., GHAs. I. HUMPRHEY.

